Californian dreaming….

good technology

extraordinarily conspicuous consumption

Further down the page, you’ll read about artists buying houses in Detroit for one hundred dollars.  Meanwhile, the people that brought the world the Global financial crisis that completed Detroit’s collapse, will be looking at videos such as the one above, promoting the latest collaboration from Wally and Hermes – a floating island for the [...]

minimalist television

An earlier post dealt with the possibilities of a re imagined internet.  This one canvases the possibilities for television. The above poster, is one of a very impressive series by Albert Exergian (the top of the page is a little tawdry.  Scroll down for the TV stuff) in which he creates, sweetly minimal graphics for popular [...]

Classic internet

If only Penguin had designed the internet. This is one of a series of designs by French Graphic artist, Stephane Massa-Bidal.  More here.

legless

font distress

Ikea said that in order to reach many people in many different ways, it needed a font that works in both digital and print media.
“Verdana is a simple, cost-effective font which works well in all media and languages,” Meiby said.
But some Ikea fans were outraged, finding Verdana less elegant than Futura.
The online forum Typophile ended [...]

indoor outdoor

Surely all offices should be like this? From Selgas Cano in Madrid…

playground

Many of the geekier amongst you would now be aware that some of the clever anonymites down in 4chan have been playing pattycake with the very respectable Times online most influential person in the world survey.  This wasn’t simply a matter of putting their dude, the mysterious Moot on the top of the list. It [...]

super fry

from Consumer Energy Report (who?)

NIF’s 192 laser beams, housed in a ten-story building the size of three football fields, travel a long path, about 1,000 feet, from their birth at one of the two master oscillators to the center of the target chamber. As the beams move through NIF’s amplifiers, their energy increases exponentially. From [...]

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